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REALITY TECHNOLOGY Timothy Leary & 77j£

following sections are ex-

cerpted from a rough draft of

THE

CYBERNAUTS: From Modern Alchemy to the New Renaissance by Timothy Leary and Eric

Eric Gullichsen technology

with

the

magick of

Crowley and teachings ofGurdjieff.

The book

will

be published by Fal-

con Press, Autumn,

Gul-

Humankind's

'88.

post-industrial

lichsen, which one might describe

cyber-era

as a potent blend of popularization

solution of the relevance of what has

of the latest advances

in

computer

up

until

is

characterized by a dis-

now been

regarded as the REALITY HACKERS

23

"real world".

cause

it

It

has been termed real be-

has been the one and only physi-

whose existence is known which has had a monopoly on

cal universe

ties

—

cept expressed by iconoclastic computer

that

stimulation of the inputs of

human

sen-

Artists

striven

from the create

to

earliest times

alternate

with signals created by

by

distinguished

its

have

realities,

stimulations of other human's

senses

humans

in

quality

of

an act self-

awareness and intention from those of the

non-human

natural world. "Art" and

"artificial" share

the Latin "ars",

and

visionary

meaning in

technology have

Whereas

completeness of the

artificial.

traditional art forms,

music or sculpture,

typically appealed to a single sensory at

something. Virtuality

From

the in-

vention of the movie, to the construction of shopping malls,

ences. Shopping malls have

basically

all

identical in functionality, but a Ferrari

and a Volkswagen

differ greatly in virtu-

ality.

We speak here not of the rather procomputers as design

aids for architectural drafting

spection of the

and

yet built, but of dynamically-reconfig-

urable

realized

architecture

by com-

puter-projected holograms.

A CYBER PRANK IN ARTIFICIAL REALITIES

grown to the

the

Computer scientist Randy Smith at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center has

built a

computer system for educational

play in an

can be born,

his system, called

live, get

married and

However, neither artificial

die.

traditional art nor

modify

realities

the rules of operation of the perceived

universe; they simply

modify visual or

spatial properties locally.

The key

computer-generated

realities is that their rules

the laws governing

time, the rules of the

reality kit"

,

physics

ARK,

reality.

With

for "artificial

players can create objects

with properties such as motion, acceleration,

and gravitation. Through computer

animation, the objects

move

continu-

differ-

ously in accordance with the laws estab-

artificial

lished for the artificial reality, orbiting

~

one another and bouncing off the perime-

of operation

change through

game

artificial

—

are as

ter

for

of the screen.

It is

a virtual laboratory

learning through experimentation,

mutable as their immediate form. Secon-

reflecting the intelligent use of a

can be more interactive, most

puter as something capable of far

darily, they

in-

3-D form of buildings not

extent that they are places where people

-

contrasted with

or artifact. Automobiles are

humans have had an

increasing choice of alternative experi-

in

"seeming" of

most a few, now forms are

sensorily encompassing.

architectural

is

as

functionality, the pragmatic side of an act

saic applications of

"craft".

contributed to the increasing sensory

ence

Ted Nelson

aristocrat

"virtuality": the "feel" or

etymological origins in

Improvements

channel or

involves the reification of the con-

(Computer Lib, Dream Machines)

sory organs.

responsive to improvised interplay with

24

humans at arbitrarily fine levels of detail. The construction of artificial reali-

commore

than the reproduction of the properties of

a static traditional

knowledge medium

objects are dragged with the

mouse between alities

alternative artificial re-

within the system, they cast a

shadow

on the screen from Oregon. Con-

cluding his demo, Smith produces a

such as paper.

When

strate

as if lifted out of

the third dimension.

one

reality into

metallic button-like object resembling the buttons in the interface of

belled "teleport."

He

positions

of his chest, and presses

it

ARK, it

la-

in front

with his other

Properties are at-

hand. Instantly, he vanishes from the

tached to objects by dragging a button to

screen and the button clatters to the chair

the object. Ingeniously,

the property

if

is

inappropriate to the object, the button fails to "stick," falling to the

bottom of

One now-legendary cyber pranking

PARC link

is

story about the

Smith and

Dr.

follows:

as

is

his

elegant

equipped with a realtime video

from Palo Alto

to a

Xerox

and display equipment

at

both

site in

sites

con-

tinuously transmitting and receiving, the is

a virtual corridor a thousand miles

long, one

end of

middle of

One

it

in

each

state

and the

moment before. A

he appears,

live, in front

of

the stunned audience in Palo Alto.

effect

human

a prank involving a simple video

and a masterful manipulation of expectation,

it

was supreme.

NASA EXPERIMENTS: SCOTT FISHER'S VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS The most complete

integration of

technology towards the realization of

encompassing telepresence alities

artificial re-

has been completed by the Aero-

Human Factors Research Division at NASA's Ames Research Center, under space

was giving a demo some people at PARC

day, Smith

the direction of Scott Fisher.

the audience

Fisher has assembled a system ca-

Palo Alto, watching him demon-

pable of presenting an integrated sensory

over the video in

in

cyberspace.

of his system to

was

it

later,

sitting a

Xerox

Oregon. With cameras, sound systems,

link

second

As

the display screen.

delightful

where he was

link.

That

is,

"Spacebuddhababies" ©1988 Phoenix & Arabeth "PvnanHinn Hoarie" (EilQftfi Oalhi

environment,

with

a

helmet-mounted

liquid crystal visual display presenting a

which

scene

changes

appropriately

common

within these

cognitive limits,

more complex environments can be managed within the human's ability

through the tracking of the participant's

generation equipment presents sounds

THE ARTIFICIAL REALITY OF MYRON KRUEGAR

through headphones in a manner which

Artificial Realities are not the

head position. Three-dimensional sound

seems

to localize the source of the

sound

Visceral interaction with the

environment

made

is

artifi-

possible

though use of speech and gesture input devices.

Commercial devices, capable of

understanding continuous speech, listen to

wishes of the participant, and

the

prototype

VPL gloves

to permit inter-

There are several obvious and imthis technology.

practical capability of telepre-

Myron Kruegar whose

title.

Kruegar dealt with

Realities as a

ance

art.

new medium

silhouette tracked faithfully the

the silhouette sprites

In

Humans need vacuum of space or

fragile envelopes of flesh.

not be sent into the

the eye of the battlefield, except virtu-

were computer-generated

resembling some form of insect.

one variant of play, the insect continu-

furtive

attempted

The

ability to overlay the presenta-

tion of computer-filtered information

on

on

perch

to

the

Only by continuous

movement could

the participant

prevent the sprite from landing.

POPULARIZATION Many new

ally.

move-

participant. Interacting with

participant's head.

their

for perform-

In Videoplace, a computer projected

remote places or environmentally hostile endangering

Artificial

pelling.

ously

without

ex-

Although simple, they are com-

sence permits humans to function in

conditions

technologies are being

created to permit the exploration of Arti-

uncharted

ficial Realities, rich

A

new

do-

that

the

top of real world local or telepresence

mains.

video displays enhances the ability of

components

humans

larization exists today, the dissemination

to function in information-rich

environments.

It is

a well-known fact of

psychological research that people tend to

be able to cope with only

minus field

2,

independent entities

of attention

at

plus or

7,

in their

any one time. By

having a computer manage the complexity

of the real world, applying hierarchi-

cal organization as appropriate to 26

same

ments of the

action with the virtual objects.

mediate applications for

artist

periments were presented in a book of the

track the position

and gesture of both hands

The very

by the

"artifi-

was coined

cial reality" (in the singular)

in space.

cial

nopoly of Big Science. The term

mo-

remain

remarkable fact

for their widespread popu-

awaiting entrepreneurial

overcoming

is

skill

capable of

societal inertia.

The technology and cyber. Quantum

is

both quantum

in its basis

on

digital

communication and computation, cyber in its ability to

empower the individual

lead an autonomous yet interacting

of increasing choice.

to

life

DOKTOR

HACKER TO THE M-M-M-MAX

MABUSE:

"

Supply

r qf

HP, etc e on

05C] Dir,

Coun

Dir.

LJ

Coupler

[pov

out

OdBm

age Cont.

30dB itek]

Dir Coup [opt]

Power Head comes w/ meter] I;

tune

Pc

Power meter HP, etc

mW read

Morgan

Chicago, November 22, 1987

9 P.M. Viewers tune into Nightly

News for

the

9:74 P.M. Sports anchor

WGN TV's

accustomed

broadcast reports from the world -at -large.

the

A mysterious TV pirate is, at

same

time,

antenna at Transmitter

aiming a microwave

WGN's STL Link)

(Studio to

preparing

overpower the station

s signal.

to

is

=

1W

Russell

Dan Roan

interrupted in mid-report by thef-

f-f-figure of Max Headroom who remains on- air for 25 seconds before

WGN switches to

its

backup STL fre-

quency.

11:10 P.M. The pirate overpowers

WTTW

TV's signal going to their

STL on

the Sears Tower.

For one REALITY HACKERS

27

out

Max

minute twenty-eight seconds

broadcasts

message over one of the largest population centers in the United States, including com-

ing a green carnation."

his

WGN radio

ments about a

and TV

sports an-

I sit

lobby.

A tall

I

in a

neo-roccoco sidechair

become aware of a presence

at

my side.

spare figure with black hair parted

down

nouncer, and displaying someone's bare ass

the middle, expensive but slightly worn-looking

WTTW loses control

jacket and trousers, paisley foulard, alligator

with a fly swatter.

being

hit

of

transmitter entirely

its

shut

it

and

is

powerless to

down.

boots, dark glasses with side-baffles, and a slav-

ering distinctly wolf-like dog with elaborate

harness dripping saliva on

Berkeley,

March 31

my

Reeboks.

"No, no, don't get up," he says

in a

deep

Phone conversation between Morgan Russell and famed hacker/cracker "Deep Tokes": Morgan Russell: "What do you think of the comments in Television Broadcast [leading

resonant voice, the adenoids suddenly gone.

broadcast journal] that 'millions of Americans

the place."

Had you going, didn't I?" "How'd you know who

might be easy prey for manipulation,'

that it's 'a

potential threat to national security,'

and

that

would be disrupted?

'our very society

Mystery Caller: "I'd say stations should just belly

up

and order some fiber-optic

to the bar

"You mean you're

my

gesture toward

the only

is

way I can get

I

much Connolly

"Someone

I

in

my dog into restaurants. The third time he ripped the interior out of my Bentley, knew he was trying to tell me something. Have you ever tried to get fang

interlocutor.

"

eyes.

into the bargain," says an adenoid-afflicted

my

was?

not ..."

"Oh, Lord, no. This

cable for security and get reasonable bandwidth

voice not belonging to

I

"You're the most confused-looking gent

who rely solely on TV for news and information

marks out of burl? Do you realize how hides go for these days?"

"Quite."

Deep Tokes?" "So sorry to break in, but your line was busy and my time here is short. I don't access RE-

trails

MOB

spectacles at a pocket- watch he's extracted from

there with you,

[remote observation] unless I'm pressed

for time." interjects nerv-

ously, "I've got ta workout scheduled.

Gotta

go." Click.

"Didn't

to

break anything

up... " the

is

You need

data department.

a

little

hard

a technological

simpering

air,

hormone

"we'll see

who needs

a

hormone

injection."

damn you!"

lunch. If

one

you want

to

know about Max, I'm

the

to talk to."

"Well, ..."

"Meet me

I

trail

behind groaning and pulling

my jacket tightly against my neck like a cloak of table Hitler

circumambulates the

central table support precisely seven times and settles to the floor

"Temper, temper, dearie. Listen, we must do

our table,

And the colored

as the canine beast lunges at a patron

At our

.

to

starts

being served a salmon. "Heel, Hitler! Heel,

invisibility.

.

side.

He

doot-deedoot-deedoot-deedoot-

sing:

break into the Interested Observer's languid

.

in."

phone?"

"Take a walk on the Wilde

injection ..."

data

"Time we go

the act on the

"Just a test of your Ernestness."

deedoof

Your newsletter is amusing, but it's a bit wimpy

I

off as he peers through his nearly-opaque

"And

girls

this?"

"Let's just say an 'Interested Observer.'

in the

on the way in, all I could do to pull him off... " He

bobbing and weaving on the way

mean

interloper drawls.

"Who

"Wretched beast tried to mount the doorman

his waistcoat.

"Uh, Morgan," Deep Tokes

28

in the hotel

yuppies

at

with a discernible thud. The

surrounding tables look on with

strained nonchalance as Hitler lubes his dis-

tended engine of procreation. I

hesitate.

at the

Durant

"Do at

one.

I'll

be wear-

put that away.

Thank you,

Hitler," with

an accompanying prod from a scuffed alligator

these

boot.

"You seem should

am, but what

I

"You can

...

" he

while surveying the wine disdain, " ah, yes

.

list

why

.

.

FCC field office or

muses thoughtfully

me

not simply call

of our conversation

is

Max Headroom

model

pirate,

Certainly he's an nician,

possibly

payroll

of

a

"Spectrum-analysis?"

how does a TV pirate like

somewhat basic about

though.

right, then.

RF tech-

shouts

on

fiber-optic

re-

his broadcast

on

"Nasty have.

who went

need a

,

Max Headroom

impostor transmissions

disrupted

two Chicago

reaching out blindly and pawing the after

frot

television statiorl ti"

beginning to

incident are only

entire front side of his

surface and be examined.

Among access

to

formation,

only

waiter

apoplectic

who

the broader implications of

to the

napkin

fo

tors continue Iheir search for the

on

linen

from the hands of the

S

By Ph\ CHICAGO— While

WTTW was so brief that a viewer

takes the

points out vulnerp

when

broadcast

I

don't

Mabuse

Doktor

onds into the broadcast; his

Mind you

napkin."

WGN did twenty-five secand

you

cold

breathe on me.

subcarrier;

frequencies

basso pro-

fundo.

he wasn't able to switch

STL

us.

waiter

the

fairly spits in

cause he wasn't using the audio

waiter

the

to

"Sir!,"

had no sound be-

proper

this

O, Miss!," he

who's been ignoring

the

amateurish in certain spects:

he said pronounc-

people reserve for a bad oyster. "Let's do

a

isn't

this,"

have to be

to

ing "basic" with an expression which most

company trying to drum up business, but his job was

WGN

what's being sent

at

and doing another spec-

it,

"Hm, seems I'm going

Max Headclone

of the

trum-analysis of that to determine the base-

clone take over a station?"

"Very simply.

de-modulating

in the line

band."

punctuated with stac-

yawning maw.

"Tell me, Doktor, the

gather complete information

and looking closely

signal out,

cato snaps and greasy gulps as Herr Doktor flips bits into Hitler's

She can obtain frequency

by putting a spectrum-analyzer

with thinly veiled

Doktor Mabuse." Three orders of fried calamari arrive and the rest

cone of reception of the

information from her friendly neighborhood

me

call

sites in the

transmitter antenna.

you?"

call

I

know who

to

two

those issues are public

STL frequency inSTL security, remote

uniform.

As

the waiter

transmitter control requirements,

bathroom or the fridge for

and even the potential threat

hastily retreats,

to

Doktor

national security

an

instant

would

have

Specifically,

postor

missed his it's

not listed in

enough

TV

And

there's

it

Max

incidents,

millions

of

solely

on

rely

has to be long

who

are

channel-

no indication

that he

the remote-control protocol to take

com-

plete control of the transmitter."

"Well,

"This

how would

is

what

Catch the sign-off

between

us, takes out a vintage

talks.

Five hundred to two thousand dollars to rent

one for a month. Generally speaking, a monthly rental

on any of

this

digital displays

ing or the highest peak, and they give their studio

you can contact them about it, so merely need to find a hotel in between

and,

"A spectrum-analyser is a very fancy CRT

the purchase price.

tallest build-

Waterman

display which costs five-to-twenty thousand dol-

how tall

on the

unfolds

with a lightning hand, sketches a diagram as he

of the desired station. They're always bragging their transmitter is

deftly

the napkin on the table

lars.

a savvier pirate do it?"

I'd tell her:

Mabuse

im-

encouraged a spree of

Americans who

Guide,

attack people

to

switching.

knew

copycat

slot entirely. If

the

if

whistles.

equipment But

I

about a tenth

is

digress.

Some have

manner of bells and Hewlett-Packard makes a particularly and

all

location so

fine one.

she'll

two-to-five thousand dollar range.

Simpler spectrum-analyzers are

in the

The spectrum REALITY HACKERS

29

analyzer can be used as a frequency measuring

device with accuracy

which

is

there's

down to a megahertz or so,

strike

or

VHS jitters

much

too

It may STL if the STL is equipped with mechanism which shuts itself down in the

their

operation of the

absence of a stable signal.

Some

Super

VHS

equipped with a time-base corrector,

in

of stations which use

what frequencies subcarrier at,

what the deviation

is,

and

She might

is.

also analyze what's on the control-channel,

though they use very high-speed signals which

are

which

can be tricky to follow.

"The

requires seventy-five microseconds pre-empha-

station

may have

ling the transmitter. This

is

a Telco link controla

much more

secure

arrangement. If our pirate can obtain the access

shape the frequency response of the base-

and control codes, she can turn the transmitter on

band.

"Our

and

pirate can derive the remote-control

protocol by

first

the station uses.

view

list

what the level on the composite

case she can send any kind of signal. The audio

sis to

STL

an

at

equipment. The technical or service manu-

generators operate

with a

however,

transmitters,

Vegas. She could

conversation

als will indicate

time-base corrector would yield broadcastable quality.

a

they use and obtain a

to

prevent

be acceptable for broadcast.

a

up

in

manufacturer's booth and learn what format

probably close enough.

"A normal Beta

one coming up soon

determining the brand of

STL

TV stations allow the public to

their facilities at least

off, raise

and lower

around the transmitter

its

power, hear sounds

site,

and get readings

through a speech synthesizer of the plate-cur-

once a year when

rent, output

power, and plate voltage,

all

with a

they have open-houses. She can note the brand

touch-tone phone. She could, of course, just turn

they use, for example, Mosely. She could also

the transmitter off and leave her

just call the station

neer.

hook to wipe out transmission entirely until someone drives to the transmitter site and physi-

and ask for the Chief Engi-

These techie-types

just love to discuss

what they do and are usually most willing to give a

run-down of their equipment

interested

one

to

cally turns

anyone who's

NAB

is difficult. It

has eight

each and

code are noted. "She needs a stable oscillator that can be

unsuccessful

(National

Association of Broadcasters) convention

back on.

digits with twelve possibilities for

with a class assignment, for ex-

ample. She might also go to the

it

"Scanning the code

and sounds halfway plausible. Any-

in college

phone off the

—

tries at the

quency-modulated with several signals

at

fre-

once:

AC/DC.Powei level

Power =8.5v [as sp

sub-carrier

control

I

control sub-carrier

Gen

Vt

Vt

pre-emp

composite video

Combiner [home built]

Gunn [Avar

NETWORK

VCR [super

[video studio]

Time Base

VHS

or U-mat]

Corrector

VIDEO

-w-

3

video level

loop

sub-carrier

AUDIO

pre-emp

Gen.

75uS

4-8

sound sub-carrier

FM

frequency control loop [AFC]

Mhz level.

30

[Volt;

Amp

coarse

< XT

the composite video (video and color information), the

sound information, and special sub-

carriers to activate the

30 dB

just as well be a

unit if the counter

sensitive enough. This

STL. She can use a VCO

oscillator

to

is

the tap-off off the

is

monitor the

Herr

frequency,"

(Voltage-Controlled Oscillator), or something

Doktor indicates with a golden

which can be modulated

quency counter or the frequency measuring device must have a constant level.

source of the signal.

like one, as the basic

A Gunn-oscillator unit, like

an Avantek, would operate the proper

"The

nib.

"A microwave frequency counter is a device

fre-

quency band. The voltage-control input allows

that

her to frequency-modulate. She applies the volt-

quency coming out of the antenna, the

age stated on the

the amplifier.

half volts.

It

unit, for instance, eight-and-a-

amp to start and puts An attenuator

takes about an

VCO

give

just

it

It

to

do the

job.

dollars, but there are

up

A

acts as a digital

A

or

AFC

microwave

enough around so one could Cheaper

ten-foot length of coax with a line-stretcher,

and an R.F. mixer would form a discriminator or

to ten

watts.

(Insert

"The Gunn

VCO,

to adjust

frequency-control methods could also be used.

The power heads can only take one hundred

milliwatts and she'd want to measure

It

probably be borrowed for the night.

She

should use attenuator-pads with her power meter.

VCO.

fre-

frequency counter costs about five thousand

should be adjustable so she can

enough power

She can use the counter

which holds the frequency on.

and the power

amplifier to keep the signal from overloading the amplifier.

can actually count and measure the

the input of the

out approximately ten milliwatts.

must be put between the

fre-

diagram)

FM It

fairly

detector and

is

good

tunable.

would be a multiple-wave-

oscillator has a fairly thick

length piece that would go through a zero-point

screw which alters the volume of the cavity into

twice every hundred megahertz. She'd adjust the

which

length with a line-stretcher to get on the right

moves, thereby altering the frequency.

it

Many have

a

little

varactor diode which

Voltage Variable Capacitor Diode with a

is

zero-point. Other ways of stabilizing

a

locking or phase-locking

little

loop of wire attached. Varying the voltage

frequency multiplier having an output that

across this diode varies the frequency only slightly, but

enough

to

modulate

are static-

it

with a crystal, then a

it

filtered for the desired frequency,

comparing the

two frequencies and keeping them

it.

"The 20 dB directional coupler I show could

device

is

stable enough, she

is

close. If the

might be able

to use

ibda, etc

Reflected

HP, etc HP, etc

]

Dir,

Varlan, HP, EIP, etc

Var Alter

Coupler

j^M^

out

HP, etc Rf

=10dBm

_

Di

r.

— —ipower meter

Coupler

I

Amp

k

30-50 dB gain

-20dB

[up to

0-60dB

10dBm

[power level

Power

rxi

40dBm to

output] adj.]

-30dB

Freq Counter [EIP, HP]

Ant

4-6' Dish Std

Dir Coupler [opt]

freq read-out

Power Head [comes w/ meter]

±Jl

Amp

(

D/A Conv

V\A

w/offset [DATEL, etcl

coarse tune

Power read-out

Power meter

Offset

"^^?

[fine tune]

HP, etc

Hoop FHn] 1

Television

mW

read

=

1

W

out

STL

[Basic Concept]

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31

'*^«J-J^^^^-*-l-t^.

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1

I

I

it

'as is' for a quickie. It

wouldn't

drift

much

in

a couple of minutes."

"How could she avoid getting cut off the air if the station switches its STL frequency on her? "Most TV stations have at least two STL frequencies and can switch from one to another. I've

"A

much

same basic idea as this set-up except the power-end of it is much greater. One would want to be able to vary one's power from fifty to five hundred satellite

uplink

is

very

A large dish

watts into a twenty-four foot dish. is

the

highly detectable, but if twenty people banded

diagrammed a set-up here with a frequency

together, each with her backyard dish and a ten-

D/A [Digital-to-analog] converter D/A with offset takes the num-

watt amplifier sending frequencies precisely

counter and

come

with offset. The

locked to

ber from the frequency counter and converts it to

the regular satellite uplink

analog for the frequency control loop. She could

and there would be no good way

have a digital control here and

where the signal was coming from. The techni-

set the

frequency

into

phase

she wants. This counter could be locked-onto

cal expertise required

and would then automatically pull the oscillator

underestimate

into the right frequency. If the station flipped to

spirit

another frequency on the same band, her broad-

satellite dishes,

cast

would simply

flip

frequencies synchro-

of

is

at the

to

some

at

determine

considerable, but don't

and rebellious

who bought

the independent cusses

all

satellite,

would be overridden

ingenuity

the

same

very great expense, to

the satellite signals, only to have

receive all

nously. If the alternate frequency were on an-

some of them scrambled

other band, she'd need an additional frequency

broadcaster to

control loop to have the capacity to flip frequen-

monthly fees for the dubious privilege of watch-

cies along with the

"A

TV

station.

travelling-wave tube

RF

most available

(Gallium Arsenide type amplifiers

may

ing is

GaAs FET

Field Effect Transistor) also be available.

It

-

would

an attempt by the

descramblers and charge

TV." Doktor Mabuse consults

probably the

amplifier, but

sell

in

from whose chain

mese

watch

his pocket

clatter various amulets:

Bur-

protective tokens, a gilt cigar clipper and

a tiny compass. "I must be shoving off.

I

have a

have to be a clean amplifier, preferably linear, so

tutorial

with some of my young charges. Gifted

the output

hackers

—

select the

power is readily adjustable. She'd power capability of the amplifier de-

as Hitler sprays the Aspidistra, and

half of them

women." He pays the tab

we

all

troop

pending on the type of antenna used and the

out to the curb. Opening the boot of his Bentley,

distance from the transmitter. She needs only

"It's

twice the paltry amount of power the studio puts

than most. They don't need to sublimate and

out. In the typical set-up, the station sends half-

reroute all their burbling teenage juices. Expe-

a-watt into a four-foot dish. If she's halfway be-

rienced hands,

tween the

station

an

elite

He pulls

and the transmitter, a quarter-

corps

I

advise. Less fevered group

all."

a long tool from the luggage

com-

watt would overpower the signal. Every time

partment, walks round to the front of his motor-

she halves the distance to the transmitter, she

car, inserts

needs only a quarter the power.

it

the

STL

quality

STLs

is

If

she overloads

receiver, however, the transmission

degraded or the receiver shuts down.

are as finicky about a signal as

pampered

Persians are about a preferred hors d'oeuvre. "Finally, our pirate needs to tune her an-

tenna by taking a reflected-power reading. Ideally she'd

want a hundredth part of the power re-

turning. That

she's tuned

it

would be a good match. Once she can then just monitor the

forward power as she broadcasts.

.

under the radiator

shell,

a crisp crank coaxing the car to

.

and gives

life.

"Bloody

And the bat guano! filthy vehicle when I fetched it." He deposits

battery ran .

it

down

in storage.

the crank in the boot, Hitler in the back seat, and

himself behind the wheel. "Oh, yes. Here."

He

picks up a package from the seat beside him and

hands

it

to

me.

A

Co-op shopping bag with a

cardboard box inside.

matching the unit

I'll

"A

you."

"But how does

it

scrambler device

use when

work?"

I

next contact

"Dear Morgan," he sighs with taxed patience.

"When I

all

read the instructions."

else fails,

blush scarlet and shuffle with embarass-

TECH

ment.

"Must be off now," he says breezily. "Ciao!" He pulls away from the curb swerving slightly to miss a local mendicant, and I watch him disappear down College Avenue amid the echoing cries,

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FEED YOUR HEAD: Now! Psychoactive Designer Foods! Durk Pearson

& Sandy Shaw

interviewed by Judith Milhon

We've been on the phone with Durk and

We need

this information.

Sandy, re searchers for the heightened, as well as the lengthened,

half an hour.

All the

life,

for nearly

way from

they're liver than we'll ever be.

L.A.,

Their

voices: they superball out of the line

knock us flat. And the data

—

and

volleys

carom around and bounce upon flattened editorial us like killer tomatoes. D. and S. are trying to tell us how what they call "natural wimps" can be transformed. 36

Sandy

is

develop drinks;

ents

What we've done is number of psychotropic

gruff:

a

and these are

— no drugs

in

all

natural, all nutri-

them

— and

yet they

have very powerful mood-altering

ef-

fects in the brain.

Durk

is

hearty, rapid-fire:

that people's

moods and

Remember

all their

emo-

tions are simply controlled

by the biochemistry

of the limbic system. Whether you're a snake, or

human

a shark, or a

What we're doing

sults.

same same re-

being, you have the

neurotransmitters which produce the

manipulating the

is

two of the most important neurotrans-

levels of

RH:

They've gotta be cool as well as

Durk:

Right

They have

!

to

So, you can use both

assertive.

.

.

.

be cool and the Rise and

Shine and our Serene formula drink, for the get-

up-and-go and the

restraint to use

it

appropri-

ately.

mitters: noradrenalin (the brain's version of

Sandy: You can take any of our designer foods

adrenalin) and serotonin.

together. They're designed not to interfere with

Sandy, aggressively: We've found turn

somebody who

leader

need

See,

.

you

nalin,

to

sertive,

if

you can

wimp

a natural

is

that

into a

you don't have enough noradrehave that aggressive drive you

don't

be an effective leader.

You can't be

and you're just not gonna make

it

that

Durk, triumphant: And you won't have any ambition; you won't want to be a leader. Sandy: Exactly. So, by taking phenylalanine and the co-factors that the brain needs to make it

.

.

.

that

is,

(I'll

get into the sexual

moment), and our Energy

Cycle drink.

We can turn a natural

Sandy:

wimp Durk:

into a leader.

Now,

I

formula. This

want

to talk about our

to

make

sero-

.

carbohydrate,

copper and vitamin

Serene

the drink that contains trypto-

is

phan and the co-factors needed .

There 're a couple of other things

tonin.

Durk:

Power Maker

releaser,

effects of that in a

as-

way.

into noradrenalin.

each other. There's also our growth hormone-

C

B6

,

zinc, folate,

which

are

very

unusual.

The

in there

scientists

at

Hofmann-LaRoche who discovered benzo-di.

.

.

azepans found that there were specific receptors

Sandy:

some

.

.

.

and adding some natural fruit flavors,

natural food acids,

You

terrific drink!

we've made

it's

drink this in the morning,

in

the

mammalian

any benzo-diazepans

That class of chemical

is

in

just not pro-

it

You might

be naturally laid back and easy to push around

and you can be turned into somebody who can really

brain. Well, there aren't

nature.

fantastic for jet lag.

and Valium

a really

gives you a fantastic amount of energy and get-

up-and-go;

for Librium

go out there and take over!

duced biologically! So what the hell are these receptors doing in there? Well, researchers went

looking for natural ligands for the receptors and they found that a combination of niacinamide

and inositol would do it. Now, niacinamide will not normally bind efficiently to these receptors,

but the inosital changes the 3-dimensional conReality Hackers, assertively: Hey! This sounds like the stuff!

What do you

call this?

figuration of the receptor to a high-binding

mode

for niacinamide. That's

acinamide ascorbate and

Durk: This is our Rise and Shine formula. But there's more to being a leader than sheer aggressiveness. It's been found that leaders of baboon tribes

and organizations

like

Rotary or Kiwanis

have high levels of serotonin as well. Because the leader

who just engages in violence is gonna

destroy the band they're leading.

RH:

why we have

ni-

inosital in there.

Fascinating!

Durk: So the Serene formula has distinct Valium and Librium-like anti-anxiety effects as well as anti-impulsiveness effects. In fact, take a dose of

it

if you

with one Valium, Dalmane or

other benzo-diazepan drug, you'll swear you REALITY HACKERS

37

And you won't have the hang-

took two of them.

over you'd have

if

you had actually taken two.

Now, we use niacinamide

ascorbate:

these

men had

violent means, like guns;

and they were

Johnny-piss-off types; they'd attack you

that's a charge transfer complex of niacinamide

drop of a

and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) which gets the

these

ni-

records of attempted suicide by

The researchers found

hat.

men had

very low levels of

real

at the

that all

5-HIAA

(a

acin into the brain. Ordinarily only about three

metabolite of serotonin) in their urine, and

percent of an orally-ingested dose of niaci-

started stuffing tryptophan in 'em,

namide ends up inside the brain: the blood-brain

normal

barrier keeps

pressed, they

it

out. But, the blood-brain barrier

has powerful ascorbate

pumps which import as-

They

levels.

all

till

they had

stopped being de-

all

stopped being impulsively

violent, they all stopped being suicidal.

corbate into the brain against the concentration gradient. (In fact, the concentration of vitamin

Sandy: You know,

C

if

in the cerebrospinal fluid,

blood-brain barrier,

C

drags

its

apart

is

the

attached niacin along with

it

we've had a lot of people

from our own experience,

niacinamide ascorbate to

inside the

ten times that in the blood

into the brain, because tell us,

is

Well, what seems to happen

serum.)

vitamin

is

which

these nutrients tors

—

it

all

—

it's

incredible to think that

follow this regimen, using

tryptophan and co-fac-

the

might be possible to wipe out most of the

child-beating, wife-beating, elderly abuse; this

type of flipout

.

.

that the

a superior tranquilizer

is

people would

niacinamide and ascorbic acid taken sepa-

Durk:

And

.

alcohol abuse.

This

docu-

is

mented.

rately.

RH: Wow! Gosh!

Jay Cornell: But most child-abuse is committed by people who wereabusedas children; I mean,

Etc!

there' s

a psychological repetition going on here

Durk: Now, we can send you acouple of Users' Manuals that we wrote. One is the Rise and

as well.

Shine and Serene High-Performance Users'

Durk: Not a psychological repetition: it's biochemical. If you subject an animal to the learned helplessness paradigm that is where

Manual and the other is the Energy Cycle User's Manual.

explains the theory behind

It

it

and

—

the animal

gives scores of scientific references.

is

punished by, say, electrical shock

that is inescapable

Sandy: People are always amazed at the idea of a user's

manual

for food,

let

do with the food when you thing about

alone what you can really

know some-

it!

—

this

causes depletion of the

catecholamines and serotonin

shock

is

mal

will

the

same

subsequently

made

no longer attempt sort of thing

in the brain. If the

escapable, the ani-

to escape

happens

it.

to kids

I

think

who

are

abused. They end up having depressed levels of

Durk: See,

—

the thing to

remember

your body, your brain

factory.

is

that

you

-

— are a biochemical

And what you put into the factory has a do with what the factory ends up And, of course, what it does make

catecholamines and serotonin, which means they don't have a lot of ambition and they are

very subject to impulsive violence.

great deal to

making. controls

how you

real clever,

feel

and behave. So

you're

Sandy: Yeah, they've become wimps. They've learned helplessness.

and you understand your biochemis-

you can cause very marked

alterations in

Durk: After that, they end up being sporadically

behavior. There were experiments on a bunch of

records of being in the

and irregularly violent because they don't have enough serotonin, because their production of

brig frequently, like for drunken bar fights. All

neurotransmitters has been affected over the

try,

Navy men who had long

38

if

.

long run by the behavior they were exposed I

don't think that psychiatry

these cases. ter levels

up

You to

is at all

to.

they'll be just fine.

RH:

As

a matter of fact,

is

it

pretty well

now that talking-therapy alone is just not effective. What psychiatrists are doing now is agreed

treating people with various types of altering drugs, trying to find those that

ety.

number of different drugs

.

.

.

methods,

and this type may lead to really violent

where a guy shoots

like

then shoots himself.

his family,

That's serotonin defi-

ciency, and the Serene formula takes care of that.

mind-

work well

for that particular patient. Usually they try a

.

Right. That's the serotonin-deficient vari-

Durk: Sandy:

.

.

necessary in

get their brain neurotransmit-

normal and

out their dogs

have

to

to find the right

RH:

I

with,

noradrenalin or serotonin or both;

Royce Ever one from

the

Infinite Survival, in Berkeley.

She'd read that when you take large quantities of bility

Yes,

talking to

Foundation for

amino

RH:

was

acids, unbalanced, there's

of liver

damage, and

.

.

a good possi-

.

and all the anti-depressant drugs deal in-

Durk:

Well, that depends entirely on what

you're taking, in what amounts. First off, taking

Sandy: There's an awful of impulsive violent crime in this country. lot

straight phenylalanine alone

ten

but

grams a it

day — would

get

wouldn't hurt your

— even

in

doses of

you awfully hyper,

Only

liver.

certain

amino acids pose a problem to the liver: tryptophan is one to be careful with. There are problems getting tryptophan into the brain as well.

Serotonin deficiency!

First off,

if

you take the tryptophan

in

the

absence of carbohydrate, your liver's gonna turn creasing the levels or altering their receptors or

most of

whatever. I love the mechanistic nature of all

coneogenesis, which puts a load on the liver and

this.

it

to sugar

Secondly,

the kidneys.

.

enough vitamin B-3

Sandy: Now, noradrenalin

is

effective for the

type of depression where you can't get out of bed in the

morning,

all

the things that used to be fun

by a process called glu-

you

if

(niacin),

your liver will turn

tryptophan to B-3 with less than

and some metabolic byproducts of that particular

pathway, such as formate and quinolinic

However, what we do

Durk: ... the kind of depression where you'd jump out the window, but you don't have the energy to get up and walk across the room and open the window. used

to

be called Melancholia,

nolinic acid.

shut

down

this

The first enzyme in the series, tryp-

tophan liver pyrrolase,

is

inhibited

by the pres-

ence of large amounts of vitamin B-3, so hell

this stunt

of a

lot

was used

has been used

right?

is

pathway from tryptophan to vitamin B-3 via qui-

have a It

2% efficiency,

acid, are highly liver-toxic.

you're not interested in anymore.

Jay Cornell:

do not have

we

of B-3 in there. Incidentally, in Britain,

where tryptophan

in psychiatric

experiments as a

tranquilizer.

Durk: The other type of depression, which very likely to lead to suicide,

is

what they

is

call

RH: How much

niacinamide do you add?

agitated depression, where the people pace the floor, can't sleep,

chew

their fingernails,

punch

Durk:

We

use a tryptophan-to-niacinamide

REALITY HACKERS

39

— ratio is

The ratio in the normal diet (which about 50 to 1 But when a person gets

of 3 to

safe) is

1

.

.

normal amounts of B-3 and then suddenly quadruples their tryptophan intake, they

can end up

in

is

B-6

vitamin

number

and

level,

C level.

three

survey of 37,000 Americans

80%

—

a huge study

of the population was getting less than the

F.D.A.'s R.D.A. of B-6. B-6

trouble.

the brain

is

Well, according to a U.S.D.A.

absolutely nec-

is

essary to decarboxylate the tryptophan to tryp-

How

Sandy:

damage

to

long does

take for this liver

it

tamine.

Worse than

that,

copper

is

an essential

co-factor for the B-6 in the decarboxylation

develop?

enzyme, and, according

Durk: Well, every time you have to produce a bunch of B-3 from tryptophan it's gonna do some damage. Fortunately, the liver is capable of healing very well, very quickly, compared

to the U.S.D.A., about

half of all Americans are getting less than half of

R.D.A. of copper. That's why our formula-

the

tions

have

lots

of B-6 and the proper amount of

copper, plus vitamin

C

and

folate.

with other organs in the body.

The next

step

getting the tryptophan

is

Sandy: The fact that 80% of Americans get less

through the blood-brain barrier. Lots of things

than the R.D.A. of B-6

compete with tryptophan

do with the

in getting through, in-

may have something

fact that there's

cluding the branch-chain amino acids. So what

impulsive violent crime

we do

tonin deficiency!

is

add some fructose,

—

of insulin

just

enough

to release a

to clear out

little bit

an awful

in this country.

lot

to

of

Sero-

some of

those branch-chain amino acids, and get the

RH: Has the FDA been coming down on you for

tryptophan through slick as a whistle. Also, that

the designer foods?

fructose tells the liver, "Hey,

you got

lots

of

Durk: Oh

Durk:

1990's is going to be the decade of psycho... the

active soft drinks.

see,

sis,"

you don't need

we've had no trouble at all. You who worked for the

FDA for seven years.

In fact, he

was

their chief

prosecuting attorney.

Sandy: Only somebody who's been in there can tell

fructose,

no,

our lawyer is Jay Geller,

to

do gluconeogene-

what they mean by

their laws; there's

such

a lot of plain insanity to the drug laws.

'cause the liver can convert fructose to

glucose in one enzymatically-controlled metabolic step:

tryptophan-to-glucose takes over a

dozen.

Sandy:

RH:

Since you re self-experimenters, do you do

six-month baselines?

Do you

watch your

liver

enzymes? Yeah,

look like road

we have maps

—

metabolic charts that

all

these various path-

—

ways and it's very clear why you need all these co-factors, but people wonder why they don't

Durk: Actually, we've each had nearly 1,000 clinical laboratory tests in the past

twenty years

and we started using these materials back around 1980 or thereabouts.

respond to plain tryptophan capsules.

we

say in

perfectly

safe,

Sandy: Well,

Durk: Once to

inside the brain, the tryptophan has

be made into serotonin. The work that Wurt-

man and Wurtman

did at M.I.T. shows that the

number one rate-limiting factor for this reaction; number two tryptophan level

40

in the brain is the

nothing

is

as

all

of our writings,

and some people

should not use supplements like phenylalanine

taking anti-depressant drugs that are

who are monoam-

ine oxidase inhibitors shouldn't use

them be-

or tryptophan.

For example, people

cause

it

may push their blood pressure way high.

But we include

all

these warnings with our sup-

plements.

Durk:

And, of course, they're

in the safety

Now, the levels of we are talking about

appendices of all our books. vitamins and minerals that are

considered unconditionally safe by Dr.

Hathcock, the FDA's chief consultant on

vita-

min and mineral toxicity. As to the amino acids, what we recommend per day is a maximum of four doses of Rise and Shine; that's only about half of the phenylalanine that a person normally

The maximum amount of tryptophan we recommend is a little more than gets in their daily diet.

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is

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Mil sal o.s Summaries of some just-off -the-griddle insight-patties on

new exciting vistas of advancing evolution.

The Tantric Wedding of Physics and Psychology

appropriately so termed: for just what the state of affairs about our

of matter? Biology

The

phenomena is at levels of organization even more pricontrol of biological

mal than those addressed by molecular biology

—

physics

a realm in which the deepest

and the

deepest

psychology

would meet, leading to a revolutionary scientific view of reality otherwise unattainable.

"Lifeless matter"

may

not be

is

the

is

knowledge

bottom

line,

not

physics.

To Be Matter or Not Two beams

to

Be?

of radiation can fuse to

create a "material" particle-antiparticle

— devoid of both matter and radiation —

pair and even the so-called

"vacuum"

possesses inherent energy and physical REALITY HACKERS

43

domain of the transduction processes between suprabi-

effectiveness.

Here

is

the

mind and biological body, and between that body and the bodies of other greater or lesser minds, whose

genomes

active

that

new neu-

can release

ropeptides are the key to future evolution.

ological

composite aggregate constitutes what everyone

calls "the external world."

psychoso-

tiny

by small triggering

nals transferred

fluc-

tuations, then amplifiable through bio-

cascade effects. Micro-singularities can

the evolutionary future

It is

of humanity that century, being

matic volitional forces, can be the prime psychophysiological transducer, the sig-

is

now,

weighed

20th

in the late

in the balance.

now

Actually, our physical forms are

quite determined and unchangeable:

— and so but — legs

on. But

10

hands and

fingers, 10 toes, 2 eyes, ears,

— and

a big

is

it

large areas in the brain are un-

create macro-controlling fields such as

charted, the so-called silent brain; and

chaotic strange attractors.

even larger areas of the human so-called "unused"

DNA.

Evolutionary Implications

these silent areas can be

Such a primal basis on the microlevel

a

has profound implications for theoreti-

DNA, the

Fact

made

that

is

to sing in

new mainstream of evolution, and the unused DNA's genomes can be unlocked

cal biology

and

in particular for genetic

in a reciprocal, peptide-secreting

theory and

how

genera and species pro-

network, mediated by cerebrospinal fluid

liferate

by long and minutely connected

sequences

of

orchestrated

genetic

We

mids are the benign prototypes of

for humanity, the

ruses,

and repeated organism/environ-

ment

interaction

leads

by

effects, to

adaptive

shall look here for the

shifts

which then lead

to

DNA insertions by reverse transcriptase and then consequently new

The only

scientific

replications.

answer

to the ob-

served rich taxonomy in nature

custom-tailored

is

the

gene-transformation

process, neuron-hormonally abetted, of

allowing

nucleotide

and the environment

new

new programs

score

still

in the

writing.

micro-

consequently and benignly

RNA

intri-

cate cerebral vein and capillary network.

(DNA/RNA) changes. RNA/DNA plasvi-

neuron

and the blood transmissions of the

processes utilizing ultimately quantum

codon-structures to interact.

The

neuropeptide system and the as-yet-in-

44

the Brain

The prime riddle-of-the-Sphinx was, Who art thou? The current one is, Who wilt thou be?

The zero-point energy of the vacuum,

when manipulated by

The Sphinx and

Ultrasonic Brain Music "Score" suggests musical score, and that idea is not far

We now

wrong.

working out melodies on ultrasonic els that will gently resonate

are lev-

with neurose-

cretory areas of the brain, stimulating activity

their

by

computer-generated

sympathetic ultravibrations later

.

.

.

.

.

.

more

Also, in next High Frontiers: on

the frauds of the pleasures of celibacy

and the fears of the semen-saving chauvinists.

Aldous Huxley, Harry Stone and Peter Hurkos. Seeing that humanity now faces a

Andrija Puharich is one of the world's leading innovative scientists. His primary work has been to bridge parapsychology and medicine.

Fuller,

An experimental researcher/physihe has numerous patents cian, granted in medical electronics, some

AIDS

effecting the treatment of hearing loss.

Twenty years

ago, while an M.D. on

the faculty of N.Y.U., Puharich

mas-

sively discomfited his colleages by

studying the Brazilian healer, Arigo. He became even more notorious in orthodox circles when he described his uncanny experiences with Uri Geller

in

his best-selling book, Uri.

His bookThe Sacred Mushroom chron-

some of

work at his research center in Maine where he collaborated with, among others, Bucky icled

the

critical survival test - neutralizing

Puharich is presently focusing his energies on this challenge. It was at an N.Y.C. Psychotronics Conference on Disease and Biological Warfare Control that Puharich spoke to his

SURFING THE WAVES WITH ANDRIJA

colleagues on the subject of

Extremely

Low

Frequency (E.L.F.) emissions. He believes that plumbing the

relationship between electro-

magnetic force fields and healing could lead to novel understandings.

Afterwards, Reality Hackers' Lawrence Gerald talked with Puharich about his scientific work, and was treated to some candid and revealing

remarks about the politics of the parapsychology world.

TMIg GUY COHJLP 3TAET WWOIP

;

—

tt

Uri Geller is the

weirdest guy

I

know.

«•.»

- Andrija Puharich

E.L.F. Interviewed by Lawrence Gerald

'UHARICH

©1988 PHOENIX AND ARABETH

Andrija. Puharich:

An

incredible but

absolutely true scene took place

when

wipe them out? Would you cooperate?"

So we took Geller to

Bell Labs and to the

Uri Geller was working on one floor at

Livermore Radiation Lab and they put

Stanford Research Institute (SRI). They

together an elaborate set-up for

had Geller bending metal, teleporting

netic

things, demonstrating incidents of

could wipe out anything on computer

lepathy and clairvoyance —

were happening

unbeknownst

all

te-

these things

of the time. Well,

to us at the time, there

another lab upstairs for ARPA puter network system.

—

a

was

com-

Somebody

two and two together and

"Hey,

said:

there's a crazy kid downstairs

put

who

is

They learned

shielding.

maghe

that

They said to me, "This guy could start World War 3!" The SRI incident was witnessed by a

tape.

lot

of very credible people.

APOLLO

astronaut

moon, was

the over-

Edgar Mitchell, the

who walked on

the

Captain

seer of the project. Russell Targ and Hal

conducted

Puthoff

the

experiments.

Also participating on the team were John

Could Geller activate the Hot-Line between Moscow and Washington? "I think

Hastead of Berbeck College

David Bohm,

Quantum

in

England;

the great theoretician of

physics, and Nobel Laureate

There were about 40

Brian Josephson.

people on the team.

he could but

I

don't think he

Later the Secret Service

and asked

cares

You'd have

to.

to

pay

.

.

I

Moscow and Wash-

said, "I think

he could but

to.

him to do

said they

They

I

You'd have to pay

don't think he cares so."

me

to

Geller could activate the

Hot-Line between ington.

him

if

came

would then

consider him a "Higher Intelligence."

bending metal and levitating things." So they cross-correlated and discovered that

when

—

—

the computer!" Panic ensued.

colonels

A squad of

came out from Washington

to

around and watch Uri do his thing.

They came to me and said, "You know, our whole defense system is on computers and magnetic tape cards. Can this guy

46

Or Hired Intelligence!

By

then I'd taken Uri to

Uri did something the computers

would go wacko: program printouts would pop out sometimes partly erased the power supply would go out on them and so on. "Somebody can affect

sniff

Reality Hackers:

A.P.: Yeah!

England, Norway, Europe. Hundreds of kids started to bend metal as a result of

seeing him, either on tv or in person. I

told

these

Government agents

So

that

there's a lion running right through all their countries.

blow up I

the

Any kid on a caper could

whole

thing. It's too late!

So

think they gave up the idea of killing

Geller.

It

didn't

seem

practical

anymore.

— The next idea was

to discredit Geller

through a disinformation campaign de-

veloped by Ray

Hyman and "Amazing"

These

Randi.

A recent

able to live around the world.

he made forty mil-

no

lion dollars being in

show

that

one would take him

Do you

know about Randi? Randi works

Uri did get

in

article reported that

smokescreen around Geller so seriously.

London (July '87). prosperous enough that he's I

a

concocted

turkeys

When was

A.P.:

business.

for the

R.H. Not bad for an Extra-Terrestrial.

Disinformation Department in the De-

What about your own career? You've achieved a certain amount of credibility

— high

partment of Defense

He started working there

search projects.

He makes

in 1973.

level re-

things difficult for

legitimate psychic researchers.

We

in

the

straight

community,

scientific

considering what you're doing.

can

never get Randi to debate publicly. Peter

A.P. Well, I've done

Hurkos, the psychic, and myself

my share of straight

work.

have challenged him and he won't deal with

Yet the

us.

R.H. But you haven't been

average Joe would say

afraid to risk your reputa-

"Geller's a fake. Randi

tion

doing parapsy-

So they've done a good job the

proved

it."

chology.

—

Disinformation Squad.

But

it's all

-

horseshit,

Some

A.P.

worry about

you know.

reputation

people

Your

it.

like

is

a

woman's hymen. Once R.H.: Sounds

a

like

Max

you've

lost

Headroom plot. What became of SRI? © 1988 PHOENIX & ARABETH

R.H. A.P.

:

It

even to trained

became a CIA research center this day.

I

many of the

know

this

because

you names, places,

all that

I

to discredit

garbage. set

parapsychology research

or keep what they

know

issue,

it

gone

forever.

Right?

And a

certain

up. If your reputation's at

may mean

that you're

on

to

something.

could

There are smokescreens deliberately

up

I

psychics involved in

the psychic warfare operation. tell

freedom opens

it's

it,

concealed.

A.P.

When you're a pioneer, you have to

The risks never bothered me. The fun overcomes all of that. take risks.

I'll

never regret the time

I

spent in

Brazil studying Arigo and bringing his

R.H. : When was the with Geller?

last time

you spoke

amazing world.

It

teaching

abilities to the attention

was rough at

of the

— being an M.D. and

N.Y.U. The dean was always

REALITY HACKERS

47

"

me up, "What the hell ya doing? But they couldn't get me off the research !

calling

The county medical

project with Arigo.

me in and I told them, "It's

society called all real."

I

arranged for them to have a

viewing of some film of Arigo

And

they loved

in action.

bring him to the U.S. ?

A.P.

I

you're in this

in '61.

teams of doctors with

When operate,

there

watching him

you can't believe

shocks every

sensibility.

him and Arigo

says,

it's

real.

It

import immigration status for people

Drop your

knife,

opens

it

ability.

how

That's

to bring in Peter

Hurkos and

AMA pressure was too great.

Uri.

But

was

easier to

culture he

go down

I

It

to Brazil to the

was working

in.

pants."

up, cuts

all the truly great

psychics are working for the same

intel-

a beautiful thought.

ligence.

It's

A.P.

the only thing that's

A guy walks up "You've got a

cancer near the pancreas. Pull up your shirt.

you have special

R.H. You've said that

you're

When

me to study him up

about 1968.

'til

to

repeatedly took

I

was impossible be-

field,

with exceptional

it!

R.H. : When did you first meet Arigo ?

Back

it

cause of the medical pressure.

was able

A.P.:

but

tried,

He

pulls out a

open the

intestine

us.

It's

gonna save

These psychics are under the

influ-

ence of a super high power. Peter Hurkos is

a top psychic for the U.S. Government.

coming over

and glues the two ends together and

If there's a radar signature

somehow

the North Pole that looks like a missile,

is

—

healed!

just like that

—

the person

There would be a couple

hundred people lined up around

his

you'd think they'd experts.

No, they

house waiting to be next. The average

seconds, he can

treatment was about two minutes.

real,

this

All

was done without anaesthesia or

and where

call

up the technical up

call

tell if it's

it's

In ten

Peter.

a

dud or

if it's

going. That's a heavy

responsibility.

antisepsis.

R.H. With R.H.: What's really amazing all

is

he'd do

of this without insurance!

all

of your hobnobbing with

psychics, have you ever wanted to

gambling with them?

many years ago. I went to

made medical practice look foolish. He made us look like idiots. We know nothing and he knew every-

Las Vegas with a business were four of

us,

thing.

were looking

to

A.P. (laughter)

It

go

A.P. Just once,

partner.

There

two were psychic.

We

We

had

break the odds.

about $20 to play with and our aim was to

R.H. So the book Arigo, Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, by John Fuller, was the only

48

came Did you try and

use our psychokinetic

one guy

ability.

There was

to pick out the best table, another

and one

well-publicized information that

to place the bet,

out about this work.

After three hours

to roll the dice.

we had twenty

thou-

By

sand!

that time,

word was

around the casino to get

of us.

That was

ated a sensation!

experiment like

rid

getting cre-

It

my

only

ruled that the invention couldn't

because E.S.P. doesn't

exist.

It

work

was a

funny case.

that.

R.H. What

is

the Ideascope?

R.H.: You have finished a new book, The

Magnetic Model of Matter.

You also

A.P.

an ordinary strobe

It's

light,

You look

but

have some unique inventions, such as the

very high-powered.

Faraday Cage, hearing

strobe light, a single point source, and

scope (a special strobe

aids, the idea-

light).

All these

can be seen as practical applications of your written work. Could you say some-

you adjust

It splits.

that happens,

you suddenly

What it does

two halves of

the

blow up the whole thing. It's

When

alpha.

instead of seeing one point,

see two.

Any kid on a caper could

the frequency of the strobe to

own

your

into this

is

separate

the brain functionally.

And, what you then see is two circles, one on each

move

point.

When you

together, they

see

two

circles

form a vesica-pis-

In other words, a fish-like figure

ces.

with a dark and light space. We've tried

too late!

this out

on successful businessmen who

never heard of E.S.P., tested them, and they scored greatly! After five or ten ex-

about how the Faraday Cage

thing

works?

periences, you're ready for the next stage

which involves a video tape with tions that help

A.P.

When you're inside it, a psychic, for

example, has her performance increased

by a thousand-fold. shields

you from

all

A

you develop concentra-

tion levels that lead to out-of-body expe-

riences at will.

Faraday cage

electromagnetic

radio waves, allowing only extremely

low frequency

instruc-

(E.L.F.) magnetic

waves

R.H.: You have one of the most famous published reports of teleportation on

chic warfare research lab that doesn't

was walking down a street in Manhattan and the next thing he knew he ended up 36 miles north at your old home

make use of them

in Ossining.

to get through.

R.H.:

Do you

I

don't think there's a psy-

today.

have the patent on

record. Uri

A.P.

it?

He was with a woman named Maria Gary Cooper's daughter). apartment they were in to go

Janis (she's

A.P.

No.

receive

it.

I I

applied for one but didn't

had

a lawsuit with the

partment of

Commerce

three years.

A famous lawsuit.

that

went on

Defor

The judge

He

left

the

jogging. Within two minutes of leaving

somehow landed in 36 miles away. I was home

68th and Park, he

Ossining

-

REALITY HACKERS

49

Peter Hurkos

is

a top psychic for the U.S. Government.

there's a radar signature

looks like a missile

alone.

heard

I

thought

it

this

at first,

I

and then

I

There he was crumpled up on the

had a

dar.

couldn't

He was intact and wasn 't hurt at all.

floor.

I've

they call up Peter.

A.P.:

lot

R.H. Wasn't that

him He's not

in control

of any of that,

he?

after researching

E.T. Like just

it's

coming

could talk about

if I

"Yeah,

now

I

it,

out.

I

asked

and he

don't care anymore."

said,

Sixteen

years of high security and he's had

He won't admit it, but I can tell you

A.P.

classified information

which somehow got leaked out? A.P.: Well,

R.H.

there.

of that kind of stuff with

Uri.

is

was

I

bleak voice, "Andrija, An-

this

drija!"

it

.

coming over the North Pole that

huge crash and

was an earthquake.

find the source of

heard

.

.

him

for years that he's

R.H.:

When was

UFO

?

A.P.:

A

the last time

it!

you saw a

The Man who Fell to Earth, he

wants to be a regular person.

R.H. : Wouldn 't it be better if he was more in control

of the situation?

real

UFO?

(says this with an

amused smile and a twinkle in his eye.) A few months ago. What they do is appear when I'm in danger. They give me a warning and take care of these CIA

Maybe

A.P.

doesn't care.

it

would be

for you.

He

He's bored by the whole

think he's waiting to get off the

thing.

I

planet.

Everyone thinks of him as a show

business personality but his chief work for a long time

was being

in

charge of

psychic warfare operations for the Israeli

Army.

No

matter where he works in the

world, he basically works for them.

R.H. :

V ve heard that in the 73 Egyptian-

Israeli war,

50

II

'

he knocked out Egypt's ra-

keys and such. But I'm not really ested in

UFOs

the

all just

pointers on

mind works. Nobody

in

world ever heard of metal-bending I

started

working with

about 10 years until the energy

inter-

per se, or Uri, or metal

bending. They are

how

tur-

I

Uri.

It

the

until

took

me

was able to measure

coming out of Uri's hands

—

Hz instead of the usual eight. Now we know more about the nature of which

is

7

electron flow which, in matter, causes

metal to bend.

This

is

what

I

am most

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YESTERDAY IS JUST A SPACETIME TWIST AWAY Nick Herbert One of

the

most popular science

of a time machine plausible to his

H. G.

readers, Wells invented the idea that,

fiction stories of all time is

Wells' The Time Machine, a book that has

remained in print for almost

a hundred years.

To make the notion

like the three familiar space

sions, time is likewise a that extends

backward

Saucers by Qalbi, Clock by Michael Gosney courtesy

of

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dimension

into the past

Verbum Journal, San Diego

and forward into the

future. If time

were

a dimension like space, then the past

still

really

Einstein

exists

tions but gradually

"somewhere" and so does the future, and it makes sense to think of vehicles that could travel temporal locations.

to these distant

when Wells published

his time

In 1895,

machine

story,

at first resisted

Minkowski's new no-

began

to

appreciate the

usefulness of four-dimensional thinking. Taking the notion of spacetime seriously, in fact, led

Einstein to the greatest discovery of his career: the theory of general relativity.

the notion of time as a fourth dimension, as well

machine

as the notion of a time

mere

pletely fictitious,

itself,

were com-

Starting with

was

literary devices.

Minkowski's spacetime which

"flat," Einstein's restless

mind began

to toy

with the idea of "curved" spacetime, a detour of

Hermann Minkowski had never heard of H. G. Wells, but Minkowski made the same claim with much better justification that time is really

—

the imagination that eventually led to Einstein's

general theory of relativity. general theory

is

The main idea of the

that gravity is not a force

— a dimension on a par with

exerted by massive objects, but the result of

space. Minkowski, a Lithuanian-born mathema-

spacetime curvature. Massive objects, such as

not just fictitiously

tician

the Zurich

at

Polytechnical Institute,

the Earth,

warp

the spacetime in their vicinity.

based his claim on Einstein's then brand-new

An apple falls to the ground not because it is at-

theory of special relativity. Published in 1905

tracted to the Earth but because

it is

following a

A curious feature of

while Einstein was working as an obscure patent

curved track

clerk in Zurich, the theory of special relativity

Einstein's theory

profoundly changed our notions of space, time

time can be "curved." "Curved time" means that

and matter. The most famous consequence of

clocks in different places run at different rates

equivalence of energy

not because of any defect in their construction

the only equation ever to

but because they are correctly registering the

special relativity is the

and matter: e=mc

2

—

appear on the cover of Time magazine.

in

spacetime. is

that not only space but also

"bent time" in their vicinity.

Einstein derived the equations of special relativity

from

scientific

arguments drawn from physi-

cal facts,

from the observed behavior of

beams

viewed from reference frames

as

ferent states of motion.

light

in dif-

Minkowski was not

a

physicist but looked at Einstein's theory with a

mathematician's eye.

he recognized

From

this

that Einstein's

implied that time

is

leads to many testable predictions such as the deflection of light

nite

spacetime curvature.

work

shows how

more

is

to build time

Sun

Einstein's general

ticular configurations of

machines out of par-

energy and matter.

and space are not separate

entities but are inextricably linked together in a

Every solution

four-dimensional continuum that Minkowski

equations

called "Spacetime." According to

Minkowski's

interpretation of Einstein's theory, live in a three-dimensional

ing in time, as

like the

also the first scientific theory that

theory

actually

by massive bodies

and the existence of black holes, regions of infi-

vantage point,

a fourth dimension, or,

precisely, that time

Einstein's curved spacetime theory of gravity

world

we do

that's

is

to Einstein's general relativity

a kind of topographical

spacetime, detailing

its hills,

map

of

valleys and points

not

of interest. Each configuration of matter and en-

chang-

ergy yields a different solution, a new spacetime

common sense suggests, but in an

road map.

Of particular

interest to prospective

some of

unchanging four-dimensional spacetime uni-

time travellers

verse in which

spacetime maps describe accessible pathways

pened and

all

all

events that have ever hap-

events that ever will happen are

eternally present.

is

the fact that

these -

~ called "closed timelike loops" or "CTLs," for

—

short

CTLs

that actually

wind back

into the past. If

actually exist in nearby regions of space-

REALITY HACKERS

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time, then an ordinary rocketship could act as a

do not happen to

time machine, by just following one of these

travel

special routes

(marked

in red,

—

live in a

Godelian

— easy time

universe.

no doubt, on

now

In 1974, Frank Tipler,

spacetime navigation charts).

a mathematician at

Tulane University, showed that time machines

The

first

spacetime

map

containing time-ma-

that did not involve rotating the entire universe

chine trajectories was devised by the celebrated

were possible. Tipler discovered that CTLs will

Princeton mathematician Kurt Godel, better

form

known which

for

Godel 's Incompleteness Theorem on human knowledge

sets strict limits

To

about certain formal systems.

Godel' s solution, imagine an

picture

infinite universe

lightly sprinkled with a fog of matter.

Because

of the everywhere-attractive force of gravity, this universe is unstable:

upon

Now

itself.

will tend to collapse

it

start this

whole universe

in the

spacetime around an infinitely long

massive cylinder rotating so that its surface travels faster than half the finite cylinders

ately

by science fiction writer Larry Niven, who

imagined alien generals attempting to use Tiplerian cylinders as weapons. For the

war

story,

exactly cancels out the tendency of the matter to

tigious

model

resulting

is

called

title

Niven appropriated the

Tipler's article

The

Probably

light.

as well, Tipler rea-

soned. Tipler's discovery was taken up immedi-

spinning at such a speed that centrifugal force

collapse.

speed of

would work

which had appeared

of his

title

of

in the pres-

American physics journal, Physical Re-

view: "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of

"Godel's Universe".

Global Causality Violation."

The most surprising fact about this simple model is that sufficiently long round trips along

While Tiplerian time machines are possible

the direction of the universe's rotation are actu-

of an apparently accidental feature of our uni-

ally

CTLs. The denser

the universe, hence the

faster the compensatory rotation, the smaller the

diameter of the round-trip paths that are CTLs.

verse: our kind of matter

universe lightly sprinkled with a fog of matter.

Tiplerian

if

we happen

to live in a rapidly rotating

universe, time travel travel option.

galaxy

is

enough.

would be a matter-of-fact

We know that our own Milky Way

rotating, but galactic rotation

For everyday time

universe has to spin.

whole

Has

at the light left

it

over

travelled to us in

straight lines or spirals? Accurate

forces tending to collapse the

centrifugal force produced by the cylinder's rotation

is

sufficient to prevent radial collapse,

but no such force opposes gravitational collapse

To oppose axial collapse the cylinder must be made along the direction of the axis of rotation.

of some rigid material highly resistant to com-

The

feasibility of actually construct-

ing a Tiplerian time machine depends on finding a repulsive force strong

enough

to hold

back

gravitational collapse.

not

The rotation of the universe

can be measured by looking

from the Big Bang.

travel, the

is

just not strong

cylinders

whole structure and turn it into a black hole. The

pression.

So

is

must be enormously massive, hence subject to immense enough.

gravitational

To picture Godel's solution, imagine an infinite

in

principle, they cannot actually be built because

measurements

The most verse

is

repulsive force in this particular unithe so-called

pressure" which

is

"quantum degeneracy

responsible for the stability

of atoms and neutron stars. Strong as

generacy pressure

is

just too

weak

it is,

the de-

to halt the

of Big Bang radiation show no measurable rota-

gravitational collapse of a Tiplerian cylinder.

For better or worse, we apparently

Before you can begin to make use of such a

tional effects.

cylinder,

have collapsed into a rotating

will

it

A

black hole.

"Kerr object"

rotating black hole

after the

Roy Kerr who

tician

is

called a

New Zealand mathemafirst

solved the Einstein

equations for such objects.

cally exist, for adding

a

object also contains inders, but

idealized Kerr

CTLs just like Tipler's cyl-

when more

realistic calculations are

made, taking into account how black holes come

CTLs seem

into existence, these

Thus

real black holes

matical ones

to disappear.

— as opposed to mathe-

— are probably useless as time tun-

SEKOs

can mathemati-

no one has found a feasible scheme

enough extra angular momentum

a rapidly spinning black hole to transform

SEKO. Another argument

tence of

The spacetime region around an

Although

impossible.

SEKOs

that

is

"naked singularity":

it

to

into

against the exis-

each one contains a

a region of spacetime in

Many physicists

which physics goes crazy.

believe that nature contains a "cosmic censorship principle" that mandates

minimum clothing

standards for singularities

—

must be covered by

one one-way

at least

all

singularities

mem-

brane

nels.

Although these arguments seem

The attempt

spacetime into re-entrant

to twist

temporal loops by rotating some kind of very

heavy one

stuff

last

may

not be entirely

futile.

At

least

use of Tipler tubes, Kerr objects and

SEKOs

ity that certain

vicinity.

other configurations of rotating

The

CTLs

in their

spacetime

search for realistic solutions of the

Einstein equations that contain flagrant

A black hole that rotates so fast that

angular

its

as

time tunnels, they do not eliminate the possibil-

matter might create

loophole remains.

to preclude the

seem

to

be a worthy use for large,

fast

CTLs

comput-

momentum exactly cancels out its mass is called

ers.

an "extreme Kerr object."

an extreme Ken-

cated configurations of black holes, two co-ro-

to rotate slightly faster, a

tating Kerr objects, for instance, orbiting just

object can be

halo of

Such an

made

CTLs would entity,

If

begin to form around

it.

which might be called a "super

extreme Kerr object" or

"SEKO" might be able

to function as a practical

time machine.

One might begin by investigating compli-

outside of each other's one-way membrane.

fact that certain solutions of Einstein's equation

unequivocably permit time travel

of these equations

be exceedingly

difficult,

"Rollingclocks" by Michael Gosney courtesy of

is

a tantalizing

turn of events, suggesting that in the complexity

However, turning a rotating black hole

SEKO may

The

into a

perhaps

neys into the past

may lurk the key to easy jour.

.

.

courtesy of exaggerated

twists in the fabric of spacetime.

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—

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pant in the European press. Put this in-

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formation together with what we do know about biological warfare testing on

humans and suggests were deliberately "cooked up"

their adaptations to that they in

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in the intel-

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probably, the smallpox vac-

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ground community of punks, ers.

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were benchmarks

flew to Berlin last weekend quite unexpectedly, as a last minute stand-in for Tim Leary

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